Archives for May 2005

MDA Journal: Whatever Happened to CORBA? This month, David Frankel looks at CORBA, the middleware standard that the OMG developed and promoted before it began to focus on UML and MDA. A look at CORBA suggests some of the challenges any standard faces as it seeks market acceptance.

BPMJ Contents 11-2 2005 The Business Process Management Journal is the leading international publication reporting on business process research. We reproduce the table of contents of the latest issue, Volume 11, Number 2, 2005, so readers can check on the latest research being published.

Creating Customer Focused Organizations by Brian Dickinson Paul Harmon provides a brief review of Dickenson’s book that considers some of the challenges and opportunities in developing customer focused processes.

BPTrends 2005 Best Student Paper Contest BPTrends is sponsoring the 2nd Annual Best Student Paper Contest for the best student paper on Business Process Change. The requirements for students wishing to propose papers are described.

Our Event Horizon — The Boundary of Our Organization Brian Dickinson Some BPM systems provide managers with information by tracking and reporting on the events that occur within a process. Thus, if you want to design a process that can be well regulated it pays to think about the events in a process. In this […]

A Report From the Petri and Pi Working Group Wil van der Aalst, one of the leaders of a group that will meet in June to discuss the theoretical foundations for BPM systems, describes the groups’ objectives.